DBAHC: Less Prosperous Niger

Straddling Saharan and sub-Saharan Africa, Niger is one of the wealthiest countries on the continent. Your challenge is to make it substantially less prosperous.
 
Nerf both oil and nuclear power in the 50s onwards. If we start using alternatives to petroleum, the Middle East will be left in the dust until much later, and nerfing nuclear power will mean the key export of early Niger, uranium, will be much less valuable. Without Niger making a lot of money off of uranium, they'd never have attracted so much investment from the wealthy oil sheikhs, who stayed wealthy even as oil lost its value by diversifying their investments and their country's economies.
 
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